An automated management system for a polyclinic

: The authors review the main problems occurring in introduction of computer-aided technology of data collection, processing and storage at the polyclinics, scientific-counselling departments of the medical institutes and centers, taking into account the level of the development of Soviet computers and documentation science. The developing engineers and medical personnel are rather far from being fully aware of the whole complex of the problems they confront. This results in low efficacy of the use of the elaborated automated systems, giving rise to factors interfering with successful operation of the systems. The authors suggest an approach to the design of the automated medical systems. The authors suggest an approach to the design of the automated medical systems intended for uses in the indicated medical institutions, formed as a result of the lasting work related to the creation of the medical computer-aided systems, carried out a the A. N. Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the USSR AMS.